Day Names: Which would you pick?

I’ve always like Tuesday, Wednesday, and Sunday for girls and I think Monday would be kind of cool on a boy. This was a pretty cool post.

I really like Sunday, and then really any of the season names I adore Winter, Autumn is cute, and Summer has a great vibe only one I couldn’t imagine is Spring… I like Evening nn Evie as well, kinda cool

I’m not a huge fan of most day names, but August is one of my favorites for a boy. I also like Autumn, Summer, and Noelle for girls.

I was born on Christmas Eve and everyone always asks why my name isn’t Noelle or Eve or something…..kind of glad my mom didn’t name me based on when I was born, simply because I don’t care for many “Christmas” names, though I DO kind of like Merry.

My name is Noelle and everyone asks me wether I was born on Christmas. I wasn’t, so my go to reply is “no, 9 months after…”.

I love the idea of day names, but I don’t think I’d ever use them. Our son was due on Christmas, and someone suggested we should call him Alexander Noel. We didn’t … and he actually arrived a few days before the holiday. But if he’d actually been born on Christmas? I might have argued for it.

My favorite day names? Holiday, Tuesday, just plain Day, January, and August. August is the only one we might actually use.

I actually have quite a soft spot for some of the names on this list! I really love Winter in the middle name spot for a girl but I think it may be a little bit too different to my other choices for it to work. I also like January and Tuesday for girls but again, I don’t know if I’d be brave enough to go there! I can be a little shy and conservative with names, so I think I’d be much more likely to use something more common like May, June or Autumn. However, I do think that August is lovely for a boy.

I love September for a boy! I’m worried it would be shortened to Ember though, and that’s too trendy for my tastes (that last bit sounded so stuck up lol!!). I think the only month that I wouldn’t like to see used as a name is March.
I think I would like any day-of-the-week name except for Saturday, and I probably wouldn’t use Friday because that seems really ‘used’ commercially.
All season names sound lovely, Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn. Probably not Fall, but it might work as a middle name if the first name was perfect.
Peridot would be fantastic, but constantly mispronounced around here, and I don’t like to re-spell things for names. Plus I don’t care for ‘Perri’ as a nn. Amethyst is stunning, I’ve met a little girl named Amethyst, it was really cute!!

I love January! My dad was born in January and it would be a good way to honor him if I have a daughter. I’d only use it in the middle.

I also really like Winter, Summer, August, September, June, November, Tuesday, Midnight, etc…

I love August for a boy although I prefer the longer names of Augustus or Augustine.

For girls, January, Summer, June, May (spelled Mae) and Holiday are lovely.

I love January, April, May, and June for girls, March for a boy, and all the season names including Spring. My favorite day name is actually just Day itself. I’ve also had Daily/Daly on my GP list for a long time.

January is a surprisingly pretty name. Also, I quite like Primavera – which is Italian for Spring. Plus I have always like Noelle for a girl.

Sabato – Italian for Saturday – has possibilities for either gender (I like it for a boy).

Love Juliet & Noella. Really like Christmas too!

Love Sunday for a girl!

The more I hear it, the more I love Winter. I also like November. If we have another boy, I’d love to use August in the middle as a way to honor my mother.

Love and would use Autumn, Summer, April, Noelle, or August!

May or June would be good as mn’s.

Love Natalie for a Christmas baby too.

Tuesday and Sunday are cute, but not sure I would be brave enough to use.

Evening, nn Eve or Evie, is one I hadn’t thought of before now — love it! Like so many others, I’m a fan of Winter, too. Also a fan of July in the middle spot. I’m not sure if I’d be brave enough to use them, though!

I’d definitely go with Noel/Noelle. I not only adore this name, it has a family connection for me. My great-grandfather was named Noel (rhymes with Joel). My mom was technically named for him, but her dad chose Elnoel, a creation, rather than Noelle, a feminization. Her teachers thought she was mispronouncing her own name as a yound child and she was coined Eleanor/Elinor/Ellinor depending on which grade she was in! She legally changed it to Eleanor when she was 18, choosing the spelling of the former First Lady Roosevelt. Had I had a daughter I always wondered whether or not to honor her with Noelle or Eleanor.

These are on my list:
Afternoon – girl, as middle name
August – girl
Christmas – boy, no combo yet.
December – boy no combo yet
Evening – either
January – boy
Morning – either
November – either prefer boy
Midnight- boy
October – both
Spring – girl
Sunday – boy
Tuesday – both
Winter – boy
Saturday – both
Friday – girl
Wednesday – girl
Thursday – both
Halloween- girl middle name

I’m not a huge fan of seasonal/month/time of day names. Though a few months ago August took me by surprise and I am now infatuated with it. I also think Noelle is charming – probably because I’ve been known to sing Christmas songs all year round – as in this very moment. I think I’d prefer a more round about way of addressing the season or time of day through a birthstone or something. I was born in November and while I think Yellow Topaz is maybe much, Citrine sounds appealing to me.

If I had to pick one I’d choose Avril (I believe its the French version)because it’s more of a subtle version of a “day name”. I like the “v” sound along with the “l” ending and I also like names that start with “A”. A lot of day names seem uncreative because they are used so often in the everyday. I like Noelle, also a more subtle seasonal reference.

I don’t really like season names.
I mean, just because a baby girl was born on a Tuesday doesn’t mean that you have to let her have that heavy weight of a name. Names shouldn’t show off the month that your kid was born in.

October and September are names I love but will probably never use.

I like…

Avril
April
May (Loved this spelled Mae)
Amethyst (birth stone)
Dawn
Twilight (Obviously, this is a Guilty Pleasure, do to its connections with vampires)
Natalia (Baby born at Christmas)
Noelle
Jason (July, August, September, October and November: The most subtle day name ever)
Summer
Autumn
August

I LOVE Holiday (Billie H. is hands-down my favorite musical artist ever), though I think Halliday is much more usable. I like Winter and even have a soft spot for January. Juniper is a perennial favorite, nn June. And as far as I’m concerned, August is the perfect name for a boy: classic with a modern sound and the adorable nn Gus.

Oh, and how could I forget Vesper?! It’s at the top of my guilty pleasure list.

Twila (derived from “twilight”) is also lovely, though not for me.

I really like August, Vesper, and Sunday. I would love to use Jonquil as the middle name for the babe I’m currently carrying if it’s a girl as she’ll be born in March and Jonquil is March’s birth flower. Unfortunately, my DH is not a huge fan of the name. I’ve also thought about Marcheline.

I’ve long loved the French word for Monday, Lundi, for a girl. I would use Avril to honor my mom, and I love the name August. Elula is from the Hebrew month Elul and Sivan is another Hebrew month. I would love to use Mae since it’s our wedding month. July in Spanish, Julio is pretty legit.

I just wanted to say I’m so glad someone else noticed the name of the boy from Louie! I know you guys are awesome now, you have to be awesome to love Louis CK. <3

I know a man named Navidad(Christmas in Spanish) and another man named Genaro(January in Italian). my daughters middle name is January and I love it.

Ever since I read the Thursday Next novels, I’ve kinda thought Thursday was an awesome name for a girl. I wouldn’t have the courage to do it, though.

There are a few I like but only for girls.
Sunday, June, May, April, Autumn, Spring, Summer, and August.

May/Mae is the only one I really like

May/Mae, Summer and Autumn

May has always held a dear place in my heart. It is a lovely time of year with beautiful fresh colors and perfect temperatures~ one reason I was set on marrying in May; my husband was born in May and, as an avid Victorian lover, I must note that this was also the month the beloved queen was born! May was also a sweet character in a book series that stole my heart about 10 yrs ago.

My mom’s middle name is June; the month she was born and wed. My niece was named after my maternal grandma, Ruby; however, both my brother and his wife’s birthstone is the ruby (July) which is a great personal touch To be perfectly honest, I love old names, but I cringed when that’s what they announced! All I could see was my 87 year old grandma… but now, Ruby is the cutest little 5 yr old you’ve ever seen! She makes you fall in love with the name. Actually, one of my brother’s first serious relationships was a girl named Autumn. But that relationship ended in a disaster and makes me think of better names.

As a girl, I remember watching Disney’s Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. and being fascinated by the island girl the Lt. discovered and named Wednesday. I think I prefer Tuesday tho. I also know of a woman named January; she grew up with one of my good friends. When I first heard her name, it was different so I asked if she went by Jan, but my friend said that she was only known by her full name. I thought that was interesting.

Besides May, I’ve always LOVED the name Sapphire! It’s so sleek and distinct. I don’t know how I came up with it, but I distinctly remember naming my stuffed toy that a very long time ago. My husband keeps reading this blog over my shoulder and thinks Amethyst is such a beautiful name. He told me that one of his former students boasted it as her first name; if anything, I’d use it as a middle. Nadia Sapphire or Nadia Amethyst does sound rather pretty, doesn’t it?

I like a lot of them but would probably never use them. They would be great on someone else.

My favorites:

Boys:
March
August – Augie or Gus (This one is actually in my top 5 for boy names.)
October – Toby
November
December
Monday
Friday
Saturday

Girls:
January – Janie
May
June – Junie
November – Nova or Ember
Autumn
Spring
Summer
Winter – Winnie
Tuesday
Wednesday
Saturday

I just thought of it after reading everyone else’s posts – What about Equinox or Solstice?

I have a short list of favorites:

August (I know a boy with this name, called Gus, adorable)

June

Spring

Sunday

I love:
Christmas
Valentine
August (boy)
Dusk
Midnight
Dawn
Opal